Comment 4 for bug 478144

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote : Re: kcm-gtk settings file is deleted after logout

kcm-gtk really cannot do anything at all until it is loaded in System Settings; it's just physically impossible for it to run when not loaded.

That being said, your last snippet gave me an idea. The startkde init script actually does delete that file if gtk-qt-engine is installed. This was done when switching from gtk-qt-engine to the QtCurve theme in Kubuntu 9.04, to ensure that gtk-qt-engine was no longer in use as it was very buggy and causing problems for GNOME apps. (I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.)

That being said, having gtk-qt-engine installed is the only reason that the file would be deleted, and I don't think it's installable anymore. Is it installed for you?